Hitler and Ataturk: How Turkish nationalism inspired the Nazis

Published: July 17, 2015, 2:59 p.m.

Dr. Stefan Ihrig, a historian and post-doctoral fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, recently had his book\xa0Atat\xfcrk in the Nazi Imagination\xa0published in English by\xa0Harvard University Press.

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Dr. Ihrig tells host Gilad Halpern how rising Turkish nationalism in the wake of WWI served as valuable inspiration for the Nazis in the early Weimar years and beyond.